Tour Scotland photograph of a Celtic Cross in the churchyard cemetery in Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland. The Celtic cross; Irish: cros Cheilteach, Scottish Gaelic: crois Cheilteach, Manx: crosh Cheltiagh, Welsh: croes Geltaidd, Cornish: krows keltek, Breton: kroaz geltek. is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection; the cross, the stem being longer than the other three's intersection. It belongs to a wider group of crosses with a nimbus. The Celtic Christians combined the Christian cross with the nimbus to create high crosses, a free-standing cross made of stone which was often richly decorated.
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